[2524] in Kerberos
Re: Scalability issues with Kerberos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Lunt)
Thu Jan 21 14:10:17 1993
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:36:58 EST
From: Steve Lunt <lunt@ctt.bellcore.com>
To: dmills@accvio.intel.com
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
Database dumps and loads (via krb_util, which is used by kprop) are
slow when the database is that big (apparently order n log n). But
ticket requests (kinit) and database updates (kadmin and kpasswd) are
still very fast (apparently order log n). Also, the ndbm files get
really big (I think I tested it on a Sun with 10,000 principals, and
the file was 5 meg in size), if this is a problem on your system.
A kprop/kpropd that sends only updates is critical for realms that
have # of principals in the tens of K. In this case, kdb_util should
only be used in emergencies.
-- Steve
